Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Gowa, Joanne -- I. Introduction -- 2. The Bretton Woods Regime and the United States -- 3. The Influence of Consensus -- 4. The Role of Structure and Process -- 5. The President, Policy Implementation, and the Short Road to Camp David -- 6. The Camp David...

The conflicts of interest that prevailed between the great powers in the wake of the First World War eviscerated their ability to respond collectively to the advent of the Great Depression. Instead, each turned to discriminatory trade barriers and trade blocs to try to revive domestic output....

The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our analysis does not support this claim....